Department news | December 31, 2018
In our continued effort to improve access to mental health care for those in need, a new one-year pilot program offered through the UW Medicine Accountable Care Network will provide ‘same day access’ to mental health care for Boeing employees and their family members. Set to launch January 2, 2019, UW Medicine Mental Health CareConnect will offer […]
Department news | November 30, 2018
The national opioid epidemic continues to take a significant toll on individuals, families, and communities. It also highlights longstanding deficiencies and opportunities within our healthcare system to better care for some of the most vulnerable and stigmatized members of our community: those struggling with addiction. This crisis has prompted a series of pragmatic and interdisciplinary […]
Department news | November 30, 2018
Almost 100 of our clinically active faculty responded to the 2018 UW Medicine Patients Are First Clinician Survey, a 26% increase in response rate over 2017. Press Ganey, the nation’s largest health care survey vendor, conducted the survey providing local and national benchmark data from other clinical departments at UW and from national academic medical […]
Department news | September 30, 2018
We have made significant progress in the last few months in our efforts to provide high-quality and timely care at the UW Medicine Behavioral Health Institute at Harborview Medical Center to youth and young adults experiencing a first episode of psychosis. Led by Monroe-DeVita, PhD, Lydia Chwastiak, MD, MPH, Carolyn Brenner, MD, and Sarah Kopelovich, PhD, — […]
Department news | September 30, 2018
The integration of UW Medical Center (UWMC) and Northwest Hospital & Medical Center (NWH) gives us an exciting opportunity to update the existing NWH mental health facilities while simultaneously building new mental health programs that address current system-wide gaps in care. Richard Veith, MD, and Ryan Kimmel, MD, in collaboration with Cindy Hecker, RN, the Executive Director […]
Department news | May 31, 2018
UW Medicine has asked PBSCI to join the growing list of departments participating in Epicare electronic consultations (e-consults). E-consults are consultation requests from primary care providers to specialist designed to be informal, in that the specialist will not have a face-face or other direct contact with the patient. Rather, the specialist receives the consultation question, […]
Department news | April 30, 2018
UW Medicine announced that it will open a new 12-bed voluntary psychiatric inpatient unit at Northwest Hospital & Medical Center in the fall of 2019. “The new psychiatric inpatient unit at Northwest Hospital will allow us to serve more patients in a state-of-the-art facility,” said Dr. Jurgen Unutzer, chair of the Department of Psychiatry and […]
Department news | March 31, 2018
John Fortney, PhD, is leading a pilot telehealth program that will give rural Veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) remote access to psychotherapy and related services. To date, more than 500 rural Veterans who are not receiving specialty PTSD care have enrolled in the study. The participants may choose between the two main forms of […]
The Atlantic | April 14, 2023
The Adderall shortage exposed a troubling gap in how doctors care for the disorder. Margaret Sibley, PhD, is quoted. This article requires a subscription.
Department news | February 28, 2018
Eric Hawkins, PhD, and Emily Williams, PhD, MPH (core Investigator with the VA Health Services Research and Development Seattle Center of Innovation, and Associate Professor in the department of health services), received funding from the VA National Center for Patient Safety to establish a VA Patient Safety Center of Inquiry (PSCI). The goal of PSCIs is to […]
